Much before humans constructed their first permanent shelters, they discovered the protective power of animal hides as a barrier against harsh environmental conditions. This fundamental principle of ...

Ancient Roman architecture is seen as a part of classical architecture and generally builds off of the three classical orders—Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric—which were developed in ancient Greece. Later ...

The design of office buildings, museums, airports, train stations, and homes, can't always be revolutionary. In fact, much of architecture consists of those banal platitudes that are necessary for ...

A decade that lurched in with a listless and faltering financial recovery now struts out, as far as architecture is concerned, in triumph. Not since the 1920s has there been anything like the flurry ...

Buildings made shaggy with vegetation or fragrant with wood are no longer novelties. By Stephen Wallis This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture. New ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...

Especially in a pandemic, these structures give architects room to play with materials and form. The architect Valerie Schweitzer based her pavilion on her “poetic idea of a structure that could ...

Architects and experts predict what buildings designed in 2026 will look like, and what will influence their designs.

With its speed and efficiency, 3D printing architecture technology has huge potential for military use, both at home and overseas. The U.S. Army clearly recognizes this and plans to build three ...